OnlineDomain.com Domain Name News & Opinions

More than 3,300 people from around the world have registered for ICANN’s 50th meeting in London, making it the largest in the organization’s history. “Today is a great day for advancement of the multistakeholder model …

The domain name MM.com was sold for $1.2 million at Sedo today. The domain was owned by Minnesota MicroNet, an Internet Service Provider, since at least 1995. The domain mm.com was registered back in 1994. …

DropCatch.com, one of the newest domain name backordering service, had some backorder issues over the weekend. It seems to be fixed now. Here is their announcement: Hey folks, It looks like we had some problems …

Namescout announced today some important changes to their domain name management. Apart from introducing an advanced website domain management system some of the new features include an option to cancel a domain whenever you want …

The Telegragh posted an article today stating that Dot-com will lose dominance by 2020. “By the end of the decade, .com will no longer be the dominant web address ending, experts predict.” According to NetNames’ …

Wales’ First Minister, Carwyn Jones, announced at ICANN London today that the Welsh Government plans to begin a switch of its official internet address from .gov.uk to .cymru and .wales from next year. The Welsh …

In the past week (June 9 to June 15), 520 (633 last week) transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million ($1,1m last week). Only 177 (138 last week) domains from …

Last week, Flippa announced that you can now negotiate on ANY unsold auction, not just the auctions you were bidding on. This had a big impact in Flippa sales this week, with over $40,000 worth …

Namejet was running a .Build New gTLD “premium” domain auction for the past 10 days. I say “premium” because this is one of the New gTLDs that don’t make any sense to me. New gTLDs …

Radix, a new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Registry from Asia, is launching the .press gTLD for the global journalism, PR, media and publishing community. .press domains will be available starting 24th June, 2014. The …

Go Daddy .Ninja, .Reviews and .Futbol New gTLD premium auction sold 9 domains. The domains were sold by their registry which is Rightside. The auction included 25 domains and the highest bid was for e.ninja …

I received an email from a reader called Gao Tianyong from Beijing describing his horror story dealing with the .ng registry. .NG is the ccTLD for Nigeria. The reader is not a native English speaker …

Welsh businesses and individuals can stand out from the online crowd now that .cymru and .wales have got the official go-ahead. For those keen to promote their association with Brand Wales, Nominet is publishing the …

I got an email from 101domain.com saying that the .berlin registry ended early the .BERLIN promotion that was to run until Friday June 20th, 2014. According to the dotBERLIN registry, demand was exceedingly above their …